FOS (DK)
FOS has the unique ability to make the complicated understandable through his unparalleled course of design, while challenging himself, the audience and the art world. FOS’ total installations — which he refers to as Social Design — embrace poetry and humor, while at the same time assuming a critical tone. The installations achieve maximum impact only by virtue of the audience and the activities they reflect on the work.
Born Thomas Poulsen, Danish artist FOS (b. 1971) is currently based in Venice, while his studio is based in Copenhagen. Selected exhibitions counts Hands worn smooth by coins at Copenhagen Contemporary, Palimpsest — Hands Worn Smooth by Coins at SCAD, ’palim(p)sesy/ at Nils Stærk, Leaking Fountain, Pool Temporary at Etage Projects, The Original Designer’s Workshop at Etage Projects, Koøje at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. FOS has created several permanent works, among others the interior for Marienborg, The Prime Minister’s residency and the interior for all of the CÉLINE shops from 2012 to 2018.
Petite Floor Lamp
Wood, brass, concrete, 120 x 45 cm
2021
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Skin Carpet 1
Polymid, 220 x 150 cm
2021
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Skin Carpet 3
Polymid, 220 x 150 cm
2021
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Petite Floor Lamp
Wood, brass, concrete, 120 x 45 cm, 2021
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Skin Carpet 1
Polymid, 220 x 150 cm, 2021
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Skin Carpet 3
Polymid, 220 x 150 cm, 2021
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FOS, Skin Carpet 4, 2021, polymid, 220 x 150 cm
Karl Monies (DK)
Karl Monies is particularly known for his series of decorative lidded containers, jars, and pots adorned externally by multi-coloured climbing rope and finished with oversized cork lids. A trained painter and part-time fine jewellery designer, Monies is somewhat of a stranger to utilitarian design objects, which he approaches with the naïveté of an amateur, a humble student. His on-going series of ceramic containers embrace design thinking only to interrogate it and undermine it from within, resulting in a line of aesthetically compelling, esoterically symbolic, and deeply humane objects that seem both ancient and hyper-contemporary, silly and sublime.
Karl Monies (b. 1984) earned his BFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts and subsequently took up a residency at Bangkok University. He is now based in Copenhagen and his recent exhibitions include ARCANA and CAMO at Etage Projects, Le Hasard et la Nécessité” at the CCA in Andratx, Mallorca, “Masters of Laurels” at Rumpelstiltskin, New York (2019) as well as he has exhibited with Etage Projects at Design Miami/ Basel, Design Miami and NOMAD St. Moritz.
CCLIV
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 47 x 38 x 38 cm
2021
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CCLIII
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 49 x 57 x 15 cm
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CCLVII
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 66 x 37 x 39 cm
2021
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CCLXV
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 63 x 32 x 32 cm
2021
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CCLIV
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 47 x 38 x 38 cm, 2021
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CCLIII
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 49 x 57 x 15 cm,
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CCLVII
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 66 x 37 x 39 cm, 2021
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CCLXV
Glazed stoneware, cork, rope, 63 x 32 x 32 cm, 2021
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Chloé Royer (FR)
Transforming materials or choreographic movement, Chloé Royer explores the potential of metamorphosis latent in all things, inanimate or alive. Playing with the concept of disequilibrium, this artist creates unusual forms and unexpected combinations. Ultimately, her works exist on the points of connection between things, such as skin on skin or surface to surface. She creates hybrids that defy categorisation — being neither human, animal nor thing, disrupting taxonomies and baffling our perceptions. As such, the artist blurs identities and makes us feel at ease with the strange.
Chloé Royer (b. 1989, FR) lives and works in Paris France. She holds an MFA from the École des Beaux-Art in Paris and studied at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In 2021, she received the FahrArt prize and has been artist in residency at the CND Centre National de la Danse in Pantin and at AMA in Athens. Earlier this year, she exhibited with Etage Projects at NOMAD St. Moritz.
(Stool I)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 85 x 35 x 38cm
2020
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(Stool II)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 85 x 50 x 28 cm
2020
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(Stool III)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 85 x 50 x 60 cm
2020
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(Throne)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 150 x 26 x 55 cm
2020
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(Stool I)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 85 x 35 x 38cm, 2020
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(Stool II)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 85 x 50 x 28 cm, 2020
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(Stool III)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 85 x 50 x 60 cm, 2020
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(Throne)
Polystyrene, epoxy resin, glass fabric, steel, epoxy paste, PU paint, 150 x 26 x 55 cm, 2020
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Soft Baroque (UK)
Soft Baroque focuses on creating work with conflicting functions and imagery, without abandoning beauty or consumer logic, blurring the boundaries between acceptable furniture typologies and conceptual representative objects. The refined and simplified forms of their works reflect principles of mid-century design, while at the same time veering towards conceptual territory by evoking the malleability of how objects are seen and mediated today. Processed materials manufactured for the domestic interiors are manipulated to unconventional ends.
Soft Baroque - Nicholas Gardner (b. 1988) and Saša Štucin (b. 1984) - has exhibited at the V&A, Christie’s, Somerset House, the Design Museum in London, Swiss Institute, Friedman Benda and Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York, A Palazzo Gallery in Brescia, Etage Projects in Copenhagen, Depot Basel in Basel, Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Collective Design in New York, Nomad in Monaco and St. Moritz, Design Miami/ Basel and latest at this year’s Venice Art Biennale.
Lipos Shelf
European oak, dye, brass fittings, 188 x 118 x 2 cm
2020
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Soft Metal Chair
Anodized Aluminium, 67 x 67 x 46 cm
2020
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TAN Bench (3_7)
Poplar, stainless steel, leather handcrafted by Marsèll, 50 x 200 x 47 cm
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TAN Bench (6_7)
Poplar, stainless steel, leather handcrafted by Marsèll, 50 x 203 x 46 cm
2020
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Lipos Shelf
European oak, dye, brass fittings, 188 x 118 x 2 cm, 2020
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Soft Metal Chair
Anodized Aluminium, 67 x 67 x 46 cm, 2020
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TAN Bench (3_7)
Poplar, stainless steel, leather handcrafted by Marsèll, 50 x 200 x 47 cm,
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TAN Bench (6_7)
Poplar, stainless steel, leather handcrafted by Marsèll, 50 x 203 x 46 cm, 2020
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